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Help !Prob installing BT2 to hard drive

I wiped the hard disk and created 3 partitions (as the development team suggests doing) then installed backtrack2. There are no dual drives or anything. I only wish to have BT2 on this machine. However when I reboot, nothing happens, not even an error. I just have the blinking cursor on the black screen.

HDD Install

The hard-drive installation went well for me.

Whilst you do not have dual drives you may want to utilise dual operating systems and lilo will need configuration.

When you created three partitions you may not have formatted correctly or adequately. You might check by installing the CD and from X Windows navigate to qtparted which will show the status of your drive.

Qtparted will assist in formatting to ext2 or ext3 whichever you prefer and then after commitment you might try to repeat the installation.

Before doing it, is there any chance I can fix the problem by using a boot cd (like UltimateBoot) or by using the CD version of BT2?

[EDIT]
To reply to Jonesers, the installation has been performed from the CD using "Offensive Security" tutorial. The CD was burnt from an ISO and is working well if I use BT2 from the CD (boot from CD). I actually "installed" (Full install of 2700 MB) and when restarting had the error described.